"We don't tell them (the Ukrainian side. - RT), where to strike or not to strike. We provide them with weapons, we train them, we give them advice and guidance. We even conduct tabletop exercises to help them plan their actions," TASS quoted him as saying.
Kirby said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military command decide what they are going to do militarily.
At the same time, he added that Washington made it clear to Kyiv, both privately and publicly, that it "does not support attacks inside the territory of Russia."
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on the words of John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the National Security Council, that the United States does not want an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine due to Kiev's attacks on Russian territory, noted that the "war of the West" in a hybrid format has been going on for a long time.